Posted on Texas Civilian Yahoo list June 2009 by Vicki Betts
From the Maverick letters
p.197 Mary Maverick, in San Antonio, to son Willie, May 21, 1865
Yours of 13th told me you had been sick a week of flux, [that you were] in hospital and taking no medicine. I don't know if you are right in that. I always use remedies. We had it here badly, several cases, & I found the best things to be [to] lie in bed & take injection of cold or cool slippery elm with
a little oil & sweet milk in it. I gave small quantity at a time, directly after each passage, & gave first 1 spoon sweet oil burnt brandy or nog by the mouth. It is very weakening if you let it run on & I'm afraid dangerous--Dr. Houston said he had to give calomel for it, at his house.
From the Maverick letters
p.197 Mary Maverick, in San Antonio, to son Willie, May 21, 1865
Yours of 13th told me you had been sick a week of flux, [that you were] in hospital and taking no medicine. I don't know if you are right in that. I always use remedies. We had it here badly, several cases, & I found the best things to be [to] lie in bed & take injection of cold or cool slippery elm with
a little oil & sweet milk in it. I gave small quantity at a time, directly after each passage, & gave first 1 spoon sweet oil burnt brandy or nog by the mouth. It is very weakening if you let it run on & I'm afraid dangerous--Dr. Houston said he had to give calomel for it, at his house.